Kitchen-cabinet



No. 622,335. l y Patented Apr. 4, |899. A. W. & VT. J. EALES.KITCHEN-CABINET.

(Application led Feb. 9, 1898.)

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UNITED l STATES r-iTiaNTl OFFICE.

Anon w. nALEs AND THoMAs'J. EALES, or DUNKINSVILLE, OHIO.

, KITCH EN-GAB'IN ET.

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters Batent No. 622,335, dated. April 4,1899. Application led February 9, 1898i Serial No. 669,657. (No model.)

. improve the construction of kitchemcabnets,

more especially the manner of mounting bread-boards, and to provide anefficient support for the same which when free yto-act willautomatically return the bread-board to its position within vthekitchen-cabinet.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a kitchen-cabinetconstructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsectional view illustrating the manner of mounting the bread-board.

Like numerals of reference designate correspondin g partsin both figuresof the drawings.

and a top or back 2.

1 designates a kitchen-cabinet constructed o any suitable material anddesigned to be ornainented in any desired manner and consisting of alower rectangular portion or body The body or lower portion is providedwith an upper horizontal series of drawers 3 and 4, and it has at oneside, beneath the drawer 3, which is preferably wider than the otherdrawers, a bin 42.

The kitchen-cabinet is provided atits front, below 'the drawers 4, withdoors 9, which have their free edges abutting against strips 10, and thelatter are spaced apart to provide an opening which is extendedvertically above the doors 9 andis adapted to receivea brace .1. Thebrace 11, which is hinged or pivoted' at its lower end at 12, is adaptedto support.

a bread-board 13, which when not in use is arranged wit-hin thekitchen-cabinet at a point below the horizontal series of drawersbetween the drawers 4 and the doors 9. Parting-strips `14 and 15 arearranged beneath the drawers 3 and 4 and at the upper edges of the bin 4and the doors 9, the space between .maintain them in such.

the same being open adjacent to the doors 'and the drawers 4 for thereception of the bread-board.

The bread-board is provided in 1ts lower face, near its outer edge, witha recessl, adapted to be engaged by lthe upper edge of the brace 11,which engages the outer wall of the recess. When the upper end of thebrace is Vinterlocked with the recess of the lower face of thebread-board, the latter is supported and is locked in its extendedposition. A spiral spring 17 is connectedat its outer end to theupperportion of the brace 11 and at its inner end to .the cabinet at theback. there'- of and is'adapted, when the brace is disengaged from therecess, to return the breadboard and brace to their closed positions and-The bread-board is provided at its upper face, near its rear edge, witha transverse cleat 18,forming a stop, and adapted to abut against theupper parting-strip 14 tolimit the outward movement of the bread-board.The parting-strips 14 and 15 and that portion of the frame of thecabinet directly above the opening between the strips 10 are recessed toform the extension of said opening. The bread-board is provided at itsouter edge with a centrally-arranged bail 19, which receives the upperend of the brace when the parts are folded, as illustrated in Fig. 1 ofthe accompanying drawings, and the front edge of the bread-board isrecessed at 2O to permit the brace to lie ilush with the outer face ofthe cabinet. l

The drawers 3 and 4 and the compartments below the drawers 4 may bedivided and arranged in any desired manner, and various othercompartments may be provided if necessary or desirable.

The invention has the following advantages: The bread-board is firmlysupportedl in its `extended position, and it is automatically returnedwithin the cabinet when the brace is disengaged from the recess andarranged at the front edge of the board.

.Changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any ofthe advantages of this invention.

1.. The combination of akitehen-cabiiwt pro- ICO vided with anextensible'board, and a springactuated brace pivoted at its lower endbeneath the board and having its upper end free, said brace beingarranged to engage the lower face of the board to support the saine inits extended position and adapted also to engage the outer edge of theboard to slide the same inward and retain it in its position within thecabinet, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a kitchen-cabinet 'provided with an extensibleboard and having a vertical opening at its front, a brace pivoted at itslower end in the opening and having its upper end free and arranged toengage the lowerV face of the board to support the same and adapted alsoto engage the outer edge of the board to return the same to and retainit in its closed position,.and a spiral spring secured to thekitchen-cabinet and to the brace and adapted to be drawn ont through thevertical opening, substantially as de scribed.

3. lThe combination with a kitchen-cabinet provided with an extensibleboard and having a vertical opening, said board being provided at itslower face with a recess 16 and having a recess 2O at its outer edge inadvance of the said recess 16, a bail secured to the outer edge of theboard at opposite sides of the recess 20, a brace pivoted at its lowerend within the opening and having its upper edge free and ladapted toengage either of the recesses 16 and 2O and capable of supporting theboard in its extended position and of returning to and retaining it inits closed position, substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have heretoaffixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

ARCH W. EALES. THOMAS J. EALES. Vitnesses: J .W. LITTLE, J. L. FOSTER.

